It was a fantastic year that will be missed by us and many friends that we made during our existence. We will however continue making events and exhibitions happen, just like we did during 2012. Stay tuned and follow this site for info. Thank you all for your love and support.

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Beautiful women around us on the walls and dear friends in the crowd, a perfect opening party. Faragos and CHANEL brought beauty and light to Helsinki, making us all smile.

The exhibition will be open until the end of January 27th. Welcome!

Opening party photos by Johannes Romppanen, thank you!

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Happy Holidays!

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07/12/12 — 27/01/13

The visionary photographer duo Peter Farago and Ingela Klemetz Farago, has as part of an exclusive collaboration with CHANEL in 2010 and 2011, created full fashion stories featuring 45 of the most sought-after supermodels from the Nordic and Baltic countries. The project has resulted in a lavish coffee table book and a touring photography exhibition, both entitled NORTHERN WOMEN IN CHANEL.

Freja Beha Erichsen, Helena Christensen, Iselin Steiro, Louise Pedersen, Edita Vilkeviciute, Sigrid Ågren, Frida Gustavsson, Suvi Koponen, Kirsi Pyrhonen, Carmen Kass, Siri Tollerod, Caroline Winberg and Dorothea Barth Jörgensen are just a few of the women involved. The models have been carefully chosen to represent an aestethic flair for fashion but also a desire to convey a sense of humanity. Profits from sales of the book are donated to the organisation Save The Children.

The images of these remarkable women allow us to take an exclusive and intimate insight into the significant past and present Haute Couture and Prêt-à-Porter collections created by Karl Lagerfeld for CHANEL as well as the brand’s Fine Jewelry and Beauty creations. Thanks to Faragos’ sense of the pictorial, these photographs not only celebrate the fascinating designs they record, but also produce sensational reinventions, demonstrating how fashion, photography and art can come together.

After the breathtaking outdoor setting of World’s End in Norway, 87 works of art will now invade an ultracontemporary art space. With the exhibition in Helsinki, Northern Women in CHANEL completes its tour of the Nordic countries.

Laboratory is a temporary photography gallery located in the creative heart of Helsinki. The gallery offers visitors exhibitions, experiences and events during the Helsinki World Design Capital year 2012. Northern Women in CHANEL will be the final exhibition of a series of high-quality photography exhibitions by both Finnish and international artists.

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What a great get-together at Laboratory, thank you to our guests and friends!

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LEFT NEXT

FATHER’S DAY, we are open! Rami Hanafi’s Another Story welcomes all you fathers, grandfathers and future fathers to Laboratory this Sunday, 11-6pm. Bring your loved ones, too.

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Lots of great friends spiced up with a warmest atmosphere! A big thumbs up also to our friend Wennerco for the most refreshing beverages.

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That in mind, it´s not a surprise that Wennerco and Mikä Viini!-club are attending to the Helsinki Design Capital year and  playing a key role in events here at Laboratory. They sure are satisfying the needs of our thirsty event guests. Cheers!

Collaboration between Wennerco and Laboratory will continue throughout the year. Go and check the Mikä Viini!-club out.

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12/10/12 – 25/11/12

Rami Hanafi’s exhibition at Laboratory Gallery tells a different story of snowboarding

For years now, award-winning photographer Rami Hanafi has been travelling the world from one mountain to another, documenting the lives of snowboarders as they live their dream 24/7. The works in the upcoming exhibition, shot on world snowboard tours in places like Alaska, Japan, New Zealand, Norway and California, feature internationally renowned riders Antti Autti, Scotty Lago, Mike Basich and Miikka Hast, among others.

Hanafi’s photographs take viewers from one opposite to another: from the silence of the mountains to karaoke bars, from the wild joy of winning to the disappointment of defeat. For Hanafi himself, the photographs are like personal notes or documents of times spent on the road.

“The snowboarders allowed me to see sides of themselves that only few people get to see,” says Hanafi. “I got to photograph them as they are. This is a selection of shots that say something about this culture and the people – and of shots where I felt very much part of it all. And there’s snowboarding in there too, of course.”

Professional snowboarders are driven by a passion that never dies. The thrill they felt as a child when experiencing new things and seeing new places is still there, many years and kilometres later. Most of the riders in the photographs are now international stars on the snowboard scene, while others have found in riding the freedom to hold on to the carefree days of their youth. The one thing they all have in common is the special sense of joy they only feel when out on the snow.

Hanafi himself began snowboarding in the early 1990s, a few years before taking up photography. He first started to attract international attention as a snowboard photographer about a decade later when working together with Antti Autti.

“Another Story” is the third solo exhibition of Rami Hanafi’s snowboarding photography, the two previous ones having been held at the Kotka Photographic Centre in 2009 and the VB Photographic Centre in 2012. Hanafi is currently working on a book based on these exhibitions.

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